They united 180 Greek city-states into several alliances, the first led by Sparta, the next led by Athens.
The Persian-Greek wars stretched from 499-449 BCE in several phases. There were not two distinct wars.
Darius and Xerxes.
Darius the Great and Xerxes the Great.
The Persian Empire and an alliance of Greek city-states.
The Punic Wars were a contest for supremacy in the Western Mediterranean between two rising powers. The Persian War was a contest for supremacy in the Eastern Mediterranea.
The Greek city-states paused their internal wars to unite and repel Persia. The superiority of the Greek land forces. The destruction of the Persian navy which limited Persia's ability to support and supply forces outside Asia.
The Battle of Thermopylae took place in the second of the two Persian Wars, also known more recently as the Greco-Persian Wars.
In the Persian wars which to civilizations fought in the battle of Plateau
Darius the Great and Xerxes the Great.
He consolidated local government, established Persian provincial governors in 20 provinces to oversee and protect them, and controlled them by himself and his council.
The Persian Wars pitted the Persians against the mainland Greeks. Eventually, the Greeks won after defeating the Persians by land and sea in the Second Persian War. Later, the Macedonian Geeks, under Alexander the Great, invaded and conquered the Persian Empire.
They were two different wars - the Persian War wass the persian Empire versus the mainland Greek cities, and the Peloponnesian War was between Greek cities. The Greeks won some, lost some in both wars.